Boiled tap water?

Iv heard it's better to boil your tap water and then add nutrients to it before feeding it to your plants, anybody ever done this?

nope. why?

If you boil the water, basically nothing will happen.

There is already chlorine in the water to kill bacteria and other living things, so boiling it will not benefit you.

What will benefit you is to get your water tested at a lab.

I think some powdered nutrients will dissolve better in very hot water, same with molasses.

ginnithead said:

Iv heard it's better to boil your tap water and then add nutrients to it before feeding it to your plants, anybody ever done this?

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I cant think of any reason for it. If you collect the steam from boiled tap water you would have distilled water but that's a lot of work for something so cheap and readily available.

the bums that live in the Moscow subway say the same

also cures TB and HIV overnite,

but as I not had either(yet?)

I can't really advise at this stage

I do suggest carrying a small 9mm in such places

never leave home without it (common sense that is) ...lol

good luck

saiyaneye said:

I think some powdered nutrients will dissolve better in very hot water, same with molasses.

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This is essentially correct. As you increase the temperature of the water, ionic compounds will usually increase in their solubility and rate of solubility. As long as you are below the solubility limits of the compounds at the temperature it will be used at, like 70°F, it will help dissolve them faster. That is all. The amount of time and energy spent heating the water will only be a waste though.

Ya pretty much figured

ginnithead said:

Iv heard it's better to boil your tap water and then add nutrients to it before feeding it to your plants, anybody ever done this?

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If you are trying to get rid of chlorine then boiling does it. Also getting your water from the hot tap will get rid of the chlorine. You can also let it stand for several hours and the chlorine will dissipate. Not sure if it helps anything unless you have a lot of chlorine in the water.

chz said:

If you are trying to get rid of chlorine then boiling does it. Also getting your water from the hot tap will get rid of the chlorine. You can also let it stand for several hours and the chlorine will dissipate. Not sure if it helps anything unless you have a lot of chlorine in the water.

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none of that is true ???

where are you gettin this ???

i dump my water into a big ass bucket... drop an air stone in it and bubble it for 24 hours before i use it so that chlorine and its cousin, chloramine, evaporate out. thought i read it takes more than 24 hours to get all of the chloramine out... poor poor microbes.

dont boil your water unless your doing a quick flush.

RM3 said:

none of that is true ???

where are you gettin this ???

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Dissolved gases tend to escape when temp increase, just like your coke when you leave it out in the sun.